This unsigned print was published by Johann Schöffer (lived approximately 1468-1531) as part of a collection of illustrations inspired by ancient Roman history. In...
Thomas Godfrey’s Prince of Parthia has a complicated legacy. It is credited as being the first theatrical play written and performed by Americans. Yet,...
Govert Flinck (1615-1660) is attributed with painting this darkly-colored copy of an earlier artwork by Carel Fabritius (1622-1654). Both the original and the copy...
(Perlach, Augsburg marketplace in 1550, Heinrich Vogtherr II (1513-1568), via Creative Commons)
Strained Coexistence, Theocracy and Religious Politics
A Time of Church and State
The Protestant Reformations...
This painting, by the Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (c. 1696-1770), was inspired by an uncomfortable legend from the history of ancient Rome. The...
Military order, discipline and the logistics of feeding troops were deemed so important to the Spartans that, according to Herodotus (490-425/420 BCE), the very...
